[Joint Statement]
Let Us Overthrow US Imperialism, the Culprit of the West Asian War!
Imperialist USA and Zionist Israel are committing atrocities of aggression and massacre in an extremely brutal manner. On March 5, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced that 926 people had died over six days due to airstrikes. Immediately after the war began on February 28, the USA and Israel assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei and attacked a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, cruelly massacring at least 171 teenage schoolgirls, which enraged the Iranian people. The craftiness of imperialism is revealed by the fact that the USA was conducting nuclear negotiations with Iran on the March 26, just before the invasion. Even during diplomatic negotiations, the USA prepared for a war of aggression that violently trampled upon international law and the UN Charter, completely collapsing the international order. Due to the vicious atrocities of the top-tier war criminal nations, the USA and Israel, the world is being engulfed in immense chaos and upheaval.
Iran’s counter-strike and resistance are extremely legitimate as a right to self-defense. Iran—which has struck major strongholds within the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and Israel, as well as US military bases in the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, and the US Navy base in Bahrain—has conducted its 19th attack under Operation “True Promise 4” as of the 5th. Notably, on March 1, it fired and struck four missiles at the US aircraft carrier Lincoln, bombed US CIA buildings in West Asia, and on March 5, launched missiles toward a NATO military base in Türkiye. France deployed the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier strike group to the Mediterranean, and the UK dispatched four Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar on March 5, revealing that the imperialist war headquarters, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), is deeply involved in the war. The “Axis of Resistance,” an anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist armed force active in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq, is resisting alongside Iran and striking US military assets in various locations.
This war is a dangerous provocation by the USA and Israel. Iran established a “Mosaic Defense” system capable of withstanding the opponent’s bombing based on the lessons from last June’s “12-Day War,” and accordingly, the blitzkrieg of the USA and Israel appears to have shifted into a prolonged war of attrition. Recently, a video was released showing ten Patriot interceptor missiles being used to intercept a single Iranian ballistic missile. It is predicted that Iran will launch hypersonic missiles after crushing the opponent’s air defense network with inexpensive drones and missiles. During the “12-Day War,” Iran had the experience of neutralizing Israel’s air defense network in just five days. Meanwhile, the reason Trump suddenly started the Iran war, deviating from his “Western Hemisphere-focused strategy,” is to escape the increasingly serious political and economic crises in homeland. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu also has no choice but to fall from power if he fails to pass the budget by the end of March. Trump and Netanyahu have started an external war where “the tail wags the dog” to escape their greatest crises.
Imperialist forces are acting frantically to fully initiate World War 3. While the Palestinian and West Asian wars that began in October 2023 occurred locally in parts of West Asia, the West Asian war resulting from the Iran war heralds a full-scale war. The prediction that the flames of the West Asian war could spread to wars in Taiwan and the ‘Republic of Korea (the ‘ROK’)’ is rational. Imperialist forces are acting madly to manipulate a “New Cold War” system through World War 3, utilizing their experience of escaping the worst political and military crises by forming the “Cold War” system after World War 2. As long as imperialism—the culprit of war and the destroyer of peace—exists, the greatest tragedy of humanity cannot but be repeated. The people of the ‘ROK’ and the humanity of the world will rise up in an anti-imperialist struggle to overthrow imperialism and hasten a new world of independence and peace.
March 7, 2026
In front of the US Embassy, Gwanghwamun, Seoul
Anti-US Struggle Headquarters, 21st Century Che Guevara (Defense Brigade), People’s Democracy Party (PDP)
